STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Meme Zee and C-Money CEO said they were living a fairy tale: Money, front-row tickets to playoff games and a storybook marriage proposal at Cinderella's Castle in Walt Disney World.

That fairy tale, it turns out, was based on a lie -- and the stolen identities of about 80 patients of a Staten Island doctor's office, prosecutors and police say.

Now Meme Zee -- real name Amanda Zieminski, 26, a former licensed practicial nurse at South Shore Physicians group in Great Kills -- and four others, including her fiancé and his brother, could go from that storybook castle to a state prison cell.

Ms. Zieminski lives on the 300 block of Taylor Street in West Brighton, while the other four suspects hail from the Bronx.

In all, they stole at least $675,000, prosecutors allege.

As District Attorney Daniel Donovan tells it, beginning in 2008, Ms. Zieminski used her job at the medical practice, at 3859 Hylan Blvd., to steal about 80 patient files. The prosecutor said she typically targeted people in their 70s on the belief they might not notice the change in their finances.

The ring used that information to raid bank accounts, apply for bogus credit cards and, in some cases, file income taxes on their victims' behalf to steal their tax refunds, Donovan said.

And the money fueled a life of luxury: Clyde Forteau and his brother brag on their Facebook feeds from the hottest spectator spots in sports, including field-level seats at a Jets game, near rapper Jay-Z, and at Game 6 of the NBA semifinals between the Miami Heat and the Celtics in Boston last year.

One photo shows Clyde Forteau sitting in front of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end now arrested on murder changes.

"So Clyde Forteau had better seats than Aaron Hernandez did for Game 6 of the NBA [semifinals]," Donovan said.

Ms. Zieminski was fired from her job in December for falsifying her time card, Donovan said. The doctor for whom she worked cooperated fully with investigators, he said.

Ms. Zieminski gleefully announced her engagement to Clyde Forteau in a public April 28 Facebook post: "Yesterday was the greatest day of my life. My love asked me to marry him in Cinderella's Castle, glass slipper and all."

A video of the moment can be found on YouTube.com.

Ms. Zieminski started working for South Shore Physicians in 2004, and in 2008, the doctor who owned the practice started getting reports from patients that their bank accounts had been compromised, prosecutors allege. He started taking measures to keep his patients' information safe, and started working with police to try to figure out who was stealing the information.

Then, in June 2012, the NYPD's 123rd Detective Squad got a case where a victim's TD Bank account address had been switched from Staten Island to the Bronx, and someone had asked for a new debit card. Over four days, $24,955.42 had been drained from that account through a variety of transactions, including a StubHub.com purchase for three front-row tickets to the aforementioned NBA game.

Those tickets traced back to Clyde Forteau's address, and detectives found out that the bank was looking into a pattern of identity thefts from patients at the medical practice.

In a prepared statement, Dr. Paul C. Gazzara, who runs the medical practice, said, "We are deeply upset and disheartened regarding allegations involving one of our former employees. We take the safeguarding of patient information extremely seriously and have been fully cooperating with the authorities involved in the investigation."

The case snapped together when detectives figured out that Ms. Zieminski and Forteau were classmates and student athletes at the New York City College of Technology in 2005 and 2006.

Donovan credited that discovery to Detective Gregory Siciliano of the 121st Precinct Detective Squad, the lead investigator on the case, though he lauded the entire team of investigators, which included the NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force and Asset Forfeiture Team, Donovan's NYPD detective squad, and several other law enforcement agencies.

Forteau and his brother are part of a rap group called "Yung Squad," and their Facebook profile features photos of the sporting events they attended.

When detectives got a warrant to tap the cell phones of Forteau and Ms. Zieminski, they soon realized that the ring picked many of their victims by age, allowing prosecutors to charge them with hate crimes, Donovan said.

Forteau had even posed as a Hurricane Sandy victim to explain to bank representatives why he was changing his victims' addresses from Staten Island to the Bronx, prosecutors said.

When police searched Clyde Forteau's BMW 7 series car, they found 50 credit cards and more than 20 stolen or forged driver's licenses, prosecutors said. Inside Ms. Zieminski's trunk, police found the same graphic-design jacket Clyde Forteau wore when video surveillance caught him making ATM withdrawals from the purloined bank accounts, according to prosecutors.

One alleged victim, Joann Nellis, 47, of Stapleton, said the ring stole her identity but Sovereign Bank immediately froze her account when someone called trying to change her address to the Bronx. She and her husband have been using the same bank branch all their life, she said, so bank staff knew right away that something was wrong.

Even so, she said, "It's a real violation. You just feel like everyone knows everything about you."

Mrs. Nellis said she's particularly disturbed that the ring preyed on so many senior citizens and "flaunted" their lifestyle.

"Other people want to do these things, but you work for it. You save up your money and you work for it," Mrs. Nellis said.